▲ 536 ▼ Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users. (www.ctrl.blog) submitted 2 years ago by King@endlesstalk.org to c/technology@lemmy.ml 85 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] kadu@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) I have all traces of Edge completely removed from my Windows 11 install. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children) I'm not as techy as people around lemmy. Some time has gone by since W11 got released, what do you think of it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] SadTrain@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) I just dipped my toe in the last few days or so. It's missing some QoL that existed in previous versions. I run 3 monitors. My center one is my primary display with the other 2 just being extra real estate. I wanted my taskbar to be on the left monitor and out of the way. On W10, you'd unlock the taskbar, drag it to the monitor you wanted it, then lock it up again. W11 will either let you have it on all of your monitors or only your primary monitor. I don't want all my stuff opening on a secondary monitor by default. I know it's petty, but it's frustrating to have an easy feature stripped permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avatar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Wanting good usability isn't petty permalink fedilink source parent [–] avatar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago From taskbar settings, they removed "Never" combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons. Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can't do that in W11 without a third party patcher. permalink fedilink source parent [+] kadu@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago* Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bluefirex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it's just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things. Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it's a non-issue and no argument. Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That's what I was most worried about, i'd heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I'll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] TerabyteRex@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago Firefox? Since chrome is the worse version of edge and brave is ran by an asshole (also not big on privacy) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children) I'm not as techy as people around lemmy. Some time has gone by since W11 got released, what do you think of it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] SadTrain@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) I just dipped my toe in the last few days or so. It's missing some QoL that existed in previous versions. I run 3 monitors. My center one is my primary display with the other 2 just being extra real estate. I wanted my taskbar to be on the left monitor and out of the way. On W10, you'd unlock the taskbar, drag it to the monitor you wanted it, then lock it up again. W11 will either let you have it on all of your monitors or only your primary monitor. I don't want all my stuff opening on a secondary monitor by default. I know it's petty, but it's frustrating to have an easy feature stripped permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avatar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Wanting good usability isn't petty permalink fedilink source parent [–] avatar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago From taskbar settings, they removed "Never" combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons. Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can't do that in W11 without a third party patcher. permalink fedilink source parent [+] kadu@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago* Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bluefirex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it's just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things. Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it's a non-issue and no argument. Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That's what I was most worried about, i'd heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I'll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SadTrain@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 child) I just dipped my toe in the last few days or so. It's missing some QoL that existed in previous versions. I run 3 monitors. My center one is my primary display with the other 2 just being extra real estate. I wanted my taskbar to be on the left monitor and out of the way. On W10, you'd unlock the taskbar, drag it to the monitor you wanted it, then lock it up again. W11 will either let you have it on all of your monitors or only your primary monitor. I don't want all my stuff opening on a secondary monitor by default. I know it's petty, but it's frustrating to have an easy feature stripped permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avatar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Wanting good usability isn't petty permalink fedilink source parent
[–] avatar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago Wanting good usability isn't petty permalink fedilink source parent
[–] avatar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago From taskbar settings, they removed "Never" combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons. Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can't do that in W11 without a third party patcher. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] kadu@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago* Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bluefirex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it's just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things. Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it's a non-issue and no argument. Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That's what I was most worried about, i'd heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I'll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago* Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bluefirex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it's just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things. Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it's a non-issue and no argument. Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago* Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bluefirex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it's just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things. Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it's a non-issue and no argument. Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform. I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn't do any caching. Even vxworks does caching. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That's what I was most worried about, i'd heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I'll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TerabyteRex@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago Firefox? Since chrome is the worse version of edge and brave is ran by an asshole (also not big on privacy) permalink fedilink source parent